Unit 8, 9 & 10

Literary Criticism, Theory & Culture Unlocked

Name: Literary Criticism, Theory and Culture Unlocked
Author: Ankit Sharma

The definitive roadmap to the most challenging sections of the UGC NET English syllabus. Authored by Ankit Sharma, this collection bridge the gap between complex philosophical concepts and exam-day success.

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Chapter Index

Classical Criticism

Plato, Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.

Renaissance Criticism

Sidney and the defense of poesy.

Neo-Classical Criticism

Dryden, Pope, and Samuel Johnson.

Romantic Criticism

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats.

Victorian Criticism

Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater.

Marxist Literary Theory

Base, Superstructure, and Ideology.

Culture Studies

The Birmingham School and Stuart Hall.

Mass Media Theory

Understanding media in the digital age.

Post-Colonialism

Said, Spivak, and Homi Bhabha.

Post-Modernism

Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Metafiction.

Formalism

Russian Formalism and Shklovsky.

Structuralism

Saussure, Barthes, and Sign Systems.

Post-Structuralism

The move beyond static structures.

Deconstruction

Jacques Derrida and Aporia.

New Criticism

Close Reading, Ransom, and Brooks.

New Historicism

Greenblatt and the Cultural Poetics.

Reader-Response Criticism

Iser, Fish, and the Act of Reading.

Psychoanalytic

Freud, Lacan, and the Unconscious.

Gender Studies

Feminism, Queer Theory, and Butler.